[Sarawak Campus] ‘R’ For Data Analytics

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[Sarawak Campus] ‘R’ For Data Analytics

R is both a programming language and a free software for analytics and graphics. It runs on pretty much any operating system and is widely used among statisticians and data miners for data analysis and presentations.

HOW CAN “R” BENEFIT YOU?

R is designed for statistical computing, with thousands of packages that contain the implementations of almost every available statistical methods, making it meet the first characteristic perfectly. In fact, it’s perhaps the only tool that does so in such a comprehensive fashion.

Think of R packages as Lego pieces. When a problem requires a different method, just plug in a different R package. It’s that simple. In addition, R can handle more data points than Excel by default. You can even write R code in a parallel fashion and use inexpensive commodity computers in the cloud to analyze large datasets, like Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances.

Learn more on ‘R’ For Data Analytics from Dr. Peter Ho Chiung Ching at MaGIC Sarawak @ Borneo744, and run analytics and presentations effectively, repeatedly, and at scale.

Our Speaker

Dr. Peter Ho Chiung Ching

Dr. Peter Ho is a data science practitioner with over 14 years of research and consulting experience. Currently a faculty member in the Faculty of Computing and Informatics. Winner of the Big App Challenge 1.0, the inaugural national Big Data competition.